signal processors...

[Ianm2]

having been listening to tuners, its become apparent how much radio stations use compressors to give music punch and loudness.

and it sounds terrible, thin and lacking and transistory sounding.

one option I may experiment with one day, is an expander, this is the opposite of a compressor.

some japanese companies actually made these apart from pro audio arena where they are used a lot, but the jap ones used them for records, where, according to some blurb, can actually improve vinyl, and even make it sound like cd, which is obviously a bit of anathema, but its an area to experiment one day.

they never caught on, but can be picked up cheap, anyone experimented?